NPD Manager

Job Description

👋About Us:

Hey there, we’re Wild. We’re on a mission to remove single-use plastic from the bathroom and redefine the future of personal care across Europe and beyond. We’re a high-growth, venture-backed start-up, launching our refillable deodorant on WeAreWild.com in 2020 - we’re also one of Europe’s fastest growing start-ups. Sounds fun, right?

We’re now looking for a Wild and wonderful NPD Manager to join our Operations team. This role will require someone to be a driving force around bringing new, exciting, and wonderfully Wild products to our range. Working all the way from creative ideation to product launches and more, having a forward thinking approach and fearless attitude for trying new things this person will be able to achieve our ambitious growth plans for our refill revolution and beyond!

You will report into our NPD Lead.

Ready to become a Wild thing?!

📓Some of your daily responsibilities:

• Represent Wilds mission, vision, and values through our product range by developing sustainable, refillable bathroom products.
• Oversee and support on the whole product development lifecycle, from formulation to launches.
• Ensure products are compliant for formulation and regulatory.
• Develop and maintain supplier relationships.
• Cross functional collaboration throughout the business including Retail, Creative, Marketing etc.
• Discover the best materials and packaging innovation for Wild’s refillable product range.
• Keep a pulse on industry trends, customer feedback, and our industry competitors to drive innovation and maintain our success in the field.

🚀 What we need from you:

• 3-5 years in a product development role.
• Experience in cosmetic formulation within the skincare, beauty, or personal care industry or similar, potentially with a related degree
• A keen awareness of compliance in relation to packaging, formulation, and ingredients
• A proven track record working with third party manufacturers, an "address book" we can leverage
• A fearless negotiator with a commercial mindset
• A proven track record of successfully launching products from concept to market.
• Ability to manage multiple project timelines effectively and seamlessly both individually and alongside others
• Passion for sustainability

🙌What you’ll get from us:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
• Weekly early finishes and social events
• Mental wellbeing support through Spill
• A role at a young but well-established brand making a considerable splash in sustainable self-care

We have a really simple approach to DEI, and that is that we embrace and celebrate everyone. Our company culture is all about bringing your most authentic self to work - I mean, how else could we drive innovation? Each and every single one of our employees have have huge input into who Wild is, and where we’re going to go in the future, and we literally couldn’t do this without having a team of individuals from all areas of the world, ethnicities, genders, beliefs, socioeconomic backgrounds and more. We’re always looking to grow our team by hiring people with fresh perspectives and ideas!